The blockbuster finished New Year's Day with a domestic total of $686.4 million, besting the original North American runs of Star Wars: Episode V — The Empire Strikes Back ($679 million), Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith ($510.8 million) and Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones ($447.8 million). All grosses have been adjusted for inflation.

And sometime over New Year's weekend, Force Awakens will leap past the original runs of Star Wars: Episode I — The Phantom Menace ($730.4 million) and Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi ($697.3 million). Again, that's adjusted.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens could get to a box office in North America of $1 billion to 1.2 billion. If there are huge amounts of repeated viewing from February to May then it could hold on and threaten even the inflation adjusted total of the first Star Wars.